Saturday, April 07, 2012

...just for starters, NBC News refuses to name the fired producer responsible.

And that, by any reasonable standard, is nothing more than a cover up. To think that this biased, irresponsible, race-baiter can now freely move about the cabin and get a job anywhere in the news business, free from public scrutiny, is a cover up.

Moreover, if NBC won’t name the producer, how in the world are we supposed to know someone has actually been fired?

But the biggest problem for NBC News is that a single unnamed sacrificial scapegoat doesn't begin to pay for the deliberate crime of throwing gasoline on a racial fire that was already raging.

Edit-Gate didn’t occur in the fever swamps of MSNBC. This happened on the oh-so-storied "Today Show," which means that there are only two ways this was allowed to happen:

It doesn't matter if the answer to the above question is one, two, or all of the above. Either someone who needs to be fired put a wildly irresponsible system in place, or a whole bunch of people who need to be fired allowed this travesty to skim through.

With their Friday night "nameless producer" dump, NBC News has only disgraced itself more, and still the network insists that the malicious edit was an "error" and not done deliberately, which of course is absolute nonsense.

This intentional attempt to gin up racial hatred and division is not only the slander of a private citizen (and the poisoning of a jury he might someday meet) but an attack on every citizen of this country -- and we deserve more than a nameless sacrificial scapegoat.

NBC News should immediately remove itself from this investigation and appoint a neutral panel to not only fully investigate the matter, but to reveal their findings to the public and ensure accountability is meted out to all those responsible.

If NBC and the "Today Show" are at all interested in rebuilding anything resembling a reputation, this is the only acceptable first step in what will be a very long journey.

P.S. Don’t think for a second we've forgotten about you, CNN, ABC, and New York Times. You're all part of Edit-Gate, and there will be a reckoning.

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